17. Again the prince proceeding to Scythea, or the land of sacas on the east; passed into the enchanted city of the yakshas, lying at the foot of the Eastern mountain or Udaya-giri; where being spellbound by their sorcery, he lay asleep for full seven years in the wood of the leafless mansá sijá trees.
18. Rising afterwards from his drowsiness, he was converted to the torpid state of a stone by his drinking some mineral water, and was condemned to remain for seven years more with the mineral substances of the earth.
19. He was then confined in a cave of the western mountain—Astáchala, which reaches to the region of the clouds and is shrouded by darkness; and he became enamoured of the company, of Pisácha and Apsara females.
20. He then arrived at a region which was free from fear, and where there rose a high mountain with water-falls in all sides of it; here the prince was lost in the forest of haritaki or chebula—myrobalans, and become invisible for years.
21. The prince that had erewhile been spellbound by the yaksha, travelled afterwards to the frigid climate; and there being transformed to a lion, he roved about the Raivata hills for ten days and nights.
22. And then being deluded by the black art of Pisáchas, he was changed to the form of a frog, and lived in that state in the caves of the golden mountain for a decad of years.
23. Travelling afterwards to the country of Kumárika (Cape Comorin), he dwelt at the bottom of the northern ridge of the Black mountain. Then going to the saca country, he was transformed to a hog, and lived in a dark hole for a hundred years in that shape.
24. He lived for fourteen years as a squint-eyed, in the land of marivaca; when the western form of the prince was turned to a Vidyádhara, by virtue of his skill in learning various lore.
25. There he enjoyed sexual intercourse at his full satisfaction under the scented bower of alá, and passed his time in amusement.